Eggregore, Servitor and Gods Options

Hey everyone,

Not to long ago I had a discussion about "The meaning of Life". Suddenly it went into a totally different direction concerning entities. We started talking about Eggregores, Servitors and Gods. I've gotten an interesting idea, but I feel on a shallow level that this is a flawed idea. Still I can't let go of it so I shall explain it and see what others think of it.

First my definitions.
An Eggregore gains conciounce and "life" through a group of people. This group will focus their ideas and energies onto one concept. They will give it personality traits, behaviour, morals but not a physical appearance to relate to it.

A Servitor is created by one individual or group. The servitor is a being with a set amount of traits and morals granted by the creator(s). It also has a defined shape and appearance to which everyone can relate to it.


When starting about gods I made the difference between the Christian God/Satan as well as ancient mythological Gods/Godesses. As I see it there is the Source (the All) and from this all came to be, including us. We however created the Gods that we worship, both the positive as the negative ones. Most mythological gods were created in order to express our lack of knowledge towards nature and life itself.

In another thread on these boards I also read the question "what if i use a selfmade being as a powersource, would it work just as well as worshipping a god?".

I see it that most religious icons are eggregores. Many people over the world having the same idea of what God, Satan or the prophet Mohammed stand for and their personality traits are so the speak. But no one has an idea what they look like. People focussing on the ideals on these beings, for so many generations, would generate quite a large pool of energy and thus the Eggregore (Gods) grow over time in power. This is why a self made entity would be weaker in power and aid because it has a lot less time and energy put into it.

People, for so many centuries and with so many at once, could cause great changes in the world. What if we stopped worshipping gods and such and would focus together on the world problems instead?

Just some non-worked out ramblings...

It's interesting to note (as an aside from the ongoing discussion) that with the Egyptian pantheon, some of the gods (Netjers) are reported to have willed themselves into being, spontaneously. They're considered creation gods from whom the other Netjers are brought into being. One of the ancient rituals performed by the Egyptians was a formulae to enable the Netjer to communicate to the priests and for the reverse to happen. Within the scope of my studies it was an interesting discovery that revealed that the Netjers couldn't necessarily communicate with each other and a 'go-between' of a human priest was required. This wasn't universally true. Brother and sister and 'family' Netjers could interact but others couldn't...perhaps due to there being from different areas or local cosmologies. A mere tidbit to digest...or not, spirit willing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
PS Anubis/Thoth/Hermes ended up rather twisted up with each other. Anubis and Hermes both being within the 'messenger' god class, Hermes, Thoth And Anubis all being held within the 'magician' class. Bloody confusing! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by bym: Mar 2 2006, 09:15 PM